San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-01
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

hours matrimonial experience, came to
the end of his illusions In double short
| meter.
| The interstate commerce commission
has deserved well OF the country. Had
it done no more than unearth the unjust
Determinations and favoritism OF the
Union Pacific road 1t would be amply
justified OF this generation.
TEXAS has not only laid an embargo
on the shooting iron as mode OF argu-
ment that knocks the ObjeCtOr cold; but
by the acts of the late legislature the
cussin privileges of this happy laud are
| ourtailed.
| FLOREsYHLE is dividing her attention
| between prohibition rain clouds and
| watermellOns. The first has become
stale, the last is a drug on the market,
and the middle term is getting in some
| very moist work during the heated
| term.
| lT is stated that Booth and Barrett are
| to yacht along the New England coast
this summer and play Tempest. II the
| original Tempest does not play Booth
| and Barrett for two boobies before the
season is over the bed of old ocean will
| be more smooth and less up and dOwny
| that IL sometimes Is.
The contest next Thursday in this
state will be decided by the ballots cast.
The prOhibitiOnisIs will poll ninety five
per cent OF their full strength. The anti
| prOhibitiOnists must get every voter
who will cast ballot against the
| amendment, TO the polls. If this is not
done, the defeat OF their party is certain.
AN English NJ. D., the same who
operated on the throat Of Germany's
crown prince prOnOunces hay fever II
disease confined exclusively to the aris-
IOcratic classes. How much amusement
| this statement would have caused the
lamented Beecher, who was as demo
cratic u man rs was in America and suf-
tered as aCutely from the disease as any
man living.
The state department has received Of
| fetal notification from the consul gen
eTal at Halifax informing the secretary
| that he has instructed the consul at
| CharlOtIville to take measurment at the
point where the seizure WAS made so as
| TO establish the exact distance from
shore. Was there stake stuck in the
water, an oar planted, or Il hole made,
so as to establish the point? The meth
DDS of measurement must be unique.
WHISKY and ice water are each pre-
| ferring their claims in the court of
medical inquiry a. the potent cause Of
sunstrOke. The experts give the award
TO ice water. Only about five per cent
OF the sunstrOke cases are traceable TO
alcoholism, while at least seventy five
per cent of the residue are the effect of
| undue use of ice. Shall we abOlse ice
or teach the evils OF its abuse!
The democrats who are sOlicitOus that
| the republicans should nominate man
| like Mr.. Lincoln, who would at least be
respectable land" sore the party from
| going to pieces are kindly admOnished
10 look leetle out, or a piece of the
party may hit them so hard as TO re-
mind them of section of the day Of
judgment. The republican party will
| look after its own respectfully. 1t has
not yet gone into the bastard business,
nor does II make presidential Candi-
| dates of men whose illegItimate of
| spring are the curiosity Of gazing
| thousands.
THERE is growing uneaslness over
| the reports Of Stanley's death. The ru-
NOR mysteriOusly originated in London
| city, where the death of the prince i'm
| perial In 1879, and of Carey in 1883 and
| Of Gen Gordon in lSS5-were in some
mysterious manner known before any
word of them came by the regular chan
nel- of Communication. This fact has,
no doubt, had no little to do with the
present fear, lest, despite all the exDla-
nations Ofthe geOgraphers, the man who
crossed the dark continent has found his
grave in its interior.
f. l.. HARPER, OF the Infdelty, busted,
OF Cincinnati, was long clawed, strong
iawed, thick headed financial tough.
The Riverside rolling mill failure. with
500 900 nominal assets and $3.50, 600
liabilities is a case in point. Harper was
the head of the concern. 1t never had
any real assets. 1t was organized to
| represent value ii never had in order
| that ii might be available as collateral
| for that cheeky fraud when he wanted it
| to raise wind on. He worked Ii as q
basis credit for all he could get out OF 1t
| and he got in the neighbOrhOod OF a cool
quarter of a million. 1t did no business
| in it's corporate name and was operated
under n lease to other parties. The Riv-
| erside Rolling mill was merely another
name for K. l.. Harper. It was one OF
| the many slick schemes that genius had
| for making basis of credit on paper,
and ii succeeded.
SIR CHARLES TUPPER, high commits
siOner for Canada, and whose name
dame rumor connects with the girl de-
baucheTies at the dominion capital, Ia
now in England. In late interview
with GOschen, chancellor of the exche.
quer, he urged upon England the neces.
sity of adopting the Canadian Pacific
railway as the British mail route to
China and Australia. GOschen was will.
ing and will favOrably consider the mat
ter and lay it before cabinet. Canada ID
doing all IN her power to establish over
her railway lines the highway of traffic
between the court of st. James and the
British Empire in the far east The
route is destined TO be established as II
will greatly facilitate British COmmnui.
cations. Once established Canada as.
sumes new importance in English eyes
and 10 time a wider influence in the gen.
eral politics Of the empire.
LORD SALISBURY and his conservative
crew may keep on making speeches. but
so long as they keep on accepting
amendments to the land law every time
a Gladstone gain is made at the hust-
ings, so long they demonstrate that
their star is declining. 1t is only a
! question Of time when the end comes.